Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-09
ON THE GALLONS.
Patrick McC8rty is Hanged at Fort
Smith, Ark, for the Murder Of
the Mah0ney Brothers.
History of the Murders, Arrest and Trial
The Prisoner Dies Game, Denying
His Guilt to the Last.
DIED PROTESTING HIS INNOCENCE.

DIED PROTESTING HIS INNOCENCE.
Special to the Gazette.
FORT SMITH, ARK, April 8.-To-day at
exactly eight minutes past O'CLOCK Pat
rick McCarty, who murdered the Maho-
new brothers In the Indian country about
a year ago, was hanged in the United
States Court yard on the plat upon which
ffty-three murderers have expiated their
crimes. Pat retired early last night,
sleeping soundly until O'Clock, when he
aWoke and walked about his cell tor q
short time and then returned TO his SUM
bers. Yesterday he was in excellent
spirits. He talked freely with all who
called on him. was cheerful and seeming
ly happy and by neither look nor word
indicated that he had any fears OF meet
ing his fate. Up the time of departure
from the jail he was cool and collected.
At q few minutes before O'Clock
Rev Smythe, his spiritual adviser, ar
rived at the jail and had a few moments
conversation with the condemned man.
Pat was then told that the time had ar
rived for his execution, and the death
warrant was then read to him. He was
then taken to the galloWs, marching with
steady step and ascending the galloWs
steps with as much GOODNESS as though 1t
were an everyday affair with him. He
showed no signs OF emotion whatever.
His face was bleached from long cOntine
ment in the jail and his lips and nose
seemed little more parChed than usual,
but beyond this there was nothing to be-
tray his feelings. After reaching the scat
fold McCarty knelt for few moments in
prayer with Father Smythe and then took
his stand upon the death-trap holding in
his hand q cruCitiX on which he OCCASION
ally gazed with looks of deep feeling. Fa-
ther Smythe then made short address to
the crowd inside Of the gallOW5 Enclosure,
about seventy-tve in number, stating
that owing to points that had reached him
within the past few days he would say
that there was nothing in the laws of the
Catholic church that prohibited member
of it from speaking the truth under all
circumstances; that Catholic was al
ways at liberty to unburden his mind Of
any load that might lay on it from source
of crime or under circumstances of the
nature of those in which the condemned
man was placed. MCCarty then made a
short statement to the assembly, saying
ne was entirely innocent of the crime for
utterly innocent of the circumstances con-
nected with the murder of the MahOney
boys, and knew at present no more of the
facts of their killing than he did when
charged with the murder; thst he made
this statement standing on the brink Of
eternity, with the cruciix in his hand.
He, at the request of Father Smylhe, re
peated this statement, doing 50 IN a
clear, distinct voice, and showing no
signs of agitation beyond O very slight
and only mOmentary tremor of his hand
that grasped the crucitiX. He said he
was unaware of what had led to his con-
viction, it might have been prejudice or
malice, but if either, he freely forgave
everybody connected with the matter.
He spoke feelingly Of soon meeting his
Maker in place where there would be
no prosecuting attorney and no Jurors,
and said he felt grateful to Marshal Car
roll and all officers Of the jail for the
consideration and kindness they had
shown him. At the conclusion of this
statement McCarty kissed the cruCifX
and returned it to the priest, who stood
near him. He then shook hands with
most of those standing on the platform
and babe them goodbye. His
feet and hands were pinioned,
the black cap was placed over MS head
while he repeated his last devOti Ons, Nc
Carly requesting the eXeCutiOuer to draw
it tight. Then the rope was adjusted,
and st exactly 2 07 p. IN. the desdly trap
fell, the body of the wretChed criminal
going down like a shot, and stopping
with that dull, horrible sound that always
attends such events. His neck was
broken and death ensued almost instantly,
although life was not pronounced extinct
by the physicians until 2:36, when the
body was lowered, placed in a neat coffin
and taken to the Catholic cemetery for in
terment. Thus ends the career of Pat
McCarty, and this closes one of the most
remarkable cases that has ever appeared
before the bar at this city. While Nc
Carly, up to the time of his execution,
denied his guilt and protested his innO-
CenCe publicly, it is said that he
told the story of the murder
to one of his confidential Jail comrades,
giving the particulars. He and Stutzer
planned the murder while at CofeyVille
and that day drove out seven miles in the
direction of Fort Scott, camping on
Pumpkin creek. That night they sug-
gested to the Mahoneys that as it was
all prairie country to Fort Scott, and
wood was very scarce, they had best
cook enough grub to do them all the way,
telling the boys to go to bed and they
would do the cooking. The MahOneys
retired, and when Pat and his companion
&. were assured that they were asleep, Pat
took thirty-eight caliber pistol and
Stutzer shotgun, and creeping up to
the wagon Pat shot one of the boys in
the eye, killing him, but Suffers gun
snapped and the report of Pats pistol
aroused the unhurt Mahoney, who raised
up in his bed, when Stutzer killed him
with an axe. They covered the bodies Of
their victims in the wagon and hauled
them thirty miles TO the place where they
were found. Here they burned feather
bed that the Mahoneys were sleeping on
when killed and everything else on the
wagon that was bloody. Suffers cloth
ing was bloody and he took it of and
burned it also, getting suit OF clothing
from the Mahoneys' trunk and putting it
on. This version of the horrible deed is
in keeping with some Of the evidence and
also with the yarn told by Stutzer to the
party with whom he left the wagon Of the
MahoneYs. Mrs Mahopey, the mother of
the boys, in her testimony at'the trial,
bor bOvc no bod which she